Melissus wins this particular debate, in Bayle's view, because it is more agreeable to a priori reason to suppose that there is just one necessary and infinitely perfect being responsible for the creation of the universe than to suppose that there are two warring gods, one good and the other evil (which is the view of Bayle's fictionalized Zoroaster).
I have duly received your favor of the 18th and am thankful to you for having written it, because it is more agreeable to prevent than to refuse what I do not think myself authorized to comply with.
At least that's more agreeable than sounding like every other hindsight expert.
I leave to him to convey to you all his complaints, as it will be more agreeable to me to express to you the satisfaction I received, on being informed of your perfect health.
Swann's recital was more agreeable than adventurous.
Milton Babbitt's "Manifold Music" (1995) and Charles Wuorinen's "Natural Fantasy" (1985) were more agreeable, or at least less aggressive.
In the aggregate, his pictures testify that though we may not acknowledge it, we inhabit a world that is more agreeable, and funnier, than we have any right to expect either from photography or life.
And remember that philosophy requires only the things which thy nature requires; but thou wouldst have something else which is not according to nature.- It may be objected, Why what is more agreeable than this which I am doing?- But is not this the very reason why pleasure deceives us?
There are three direct paths to the factor which are the same as those found in the multiple regression described in Supplementary table 5 of Additional File 1. Participants who said it was important to help others were more agreeable, less extravert, and were less likely to come from an ethnic minority.
Indeed, a common strategy for negotiating condom usage was promoting its use for contraception purposes rather than preventing HIV transmission, as it was felt that men may be more agreeable to use condoms if suggested as a barrier for preventing unwanted pregnancy, as opposed to HIV.
